The nation’s second-largest employer is reportedly hoping robots will take your job—or, what could have potentially been your job, at least.

After years of hiring thousands of warehouse employees and delivery drivers to build a roughly 1.2 million U.S. workforce, second only to Walmart, Amazon is reportedly shifting gears.

The New York Times reported today, citing interviews and internal documents, that Amazon’s automation team expects that by 2027, the company could avoid hiring more than 160,000 U.S. workers it would normally need. If true, that would save the company about 30 cents on every item it packs and delivers.

On top of that, executives also told Amazon’s board last year that robotic automation could potentially keep the company’s U.S. headcount steady even as sales are ex

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